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 There’s an important difference between being innovative and being an innovative enterprise. The former generates a lot of ideas; the latter generates lots of cash. With so many ways to bring a product to market, if you’re not looking at all of them, odds are you’re leaving big money on the table.
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Now more than ever company leaders need access to the deep well of experience, the talent and the ability to hit the ground running that only interim executives provide. Are you and your company focused, frugal and relentless? Here are the Top 8 Reasons Why Leadership On-Demand Makes Economic Sense Today.
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Cerius Services
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 Change is inevitable. National and international events, financial opportunities and challenges, new technologies, new competitors or new regulations can have a dramatic impact on your strategy and planning. All of these forces conspire to make Business Transformation initiatives essential to survive and profit from these changes. Cerius is here to help you find the right solution.
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Are Layoffs Stunting Your Company’s Growth?
by Pamela Wasley
Disney just announced they were offering buyouts to 600 executives, over 200 here in Southern California. Other companies that laid off executives since January 1 are Intel, Time Warner, Yahoo, General Electric in addition to thousands of small to mid-sized companies around the country.
Of course it is advisable to review talent and occasionally replace weaker employees with stronger ones but with layoffs of this magnitude, these companies may end up cutting people who will impact company growth. So how do you reduce fixed costs without stunting your company's growth?
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Avoid Knee-Jerk Reactions in Uncertain Times
By Kathryn Gray
The media is bombarding us with the news: American business is facing unprecedented hard times, the economy is crumbling and we have no past experience to tell us how to cope. Anyone operating a business is feeling an understandable sense of anxiety.
Recently, clients have called and reminded me that their most expensive budget item is people. Cost savings are necessary, the future is scary. So how many employees should they get rid of!?! My query back is: Are the doors about to close, are you running in the red? Hesitantly the answer is usually, ‘Well, no.’
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Change vs. Transformative Leadership
By Alan Creutz
Change is a one-time occurrence: we change jobs, change clothes, change addresses. Change is a shift from one person, place or thing to another.
Transformation on the other hand, is the ongoing process of dealing with change. Transformation means letting go of how things were and embracing how things might become. It is a shift from one state of mind and being to another.
In today’s world, it appears as if our lives are in a continuous state of change -- and they are. Transformational periods can be the most productive periods of our lives if we understand that letting go is not dismissing what has happened.
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